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Pen and Sword Books was officially established in 1990 when The Barnsley Chronicle purchased the Leo Cooper imprint. This transaction transformed a newspaper column into a formal publishing house with its own distinct identity.
The first book produced by what would become Pen and Sword Books was titled Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks. It detailed crash sites in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park using accounts from newspaper archives.
In 2008, Pen and Sword acquired Frontline Books to focus on United States based military history and Seaforth Publishing as a leading maritime history imprint. These purchases strengthened the firm's position in specialized sub-genres and expanded its reach into international markets.
Over 6,000 titles are now available across various formats including print, ebook download, and illustrated guidebooks. The catalog includes diverse genres such as aviation, local history, family history, collectables, antiques, transport, railways, science, archaeology, exploration, and political memoirs.
Images of War is a major series containing 243 books of rare photographs from wartime archives covering every possible global military subject. This collection documents people and equipment from World War One onwards, ranging from animals and aircraft to the Waffen SS and Winston Churchill.